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n. - An extensive area of rather level open uncultivated earth usually with poor coarse soil, inferior drainage, and a surface rich in peat or peaty humus.

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  • To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense...
  • Effects of ultraviolet radiation on sub-Arctic heathland vegetation.
  • Some recipients were able to stumble over the rough, scrubby heathland.
  • Dorset heathland declined from 40,000 hectares in 1750 to 5,600 in 1983.
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